{"id":910,"date":"2011-10-31T13:17:45","date_gmt":"2011-10-31T20:17:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stpeter.ccreadbible.org\/?p=910"},"modified":"2011-10-31T13:17:45","modified_gmt":"2011-10-31T20:17:45","slug":"sand-and-stone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stpeter.ccreadbible.org\/?p=910","title":{"rendered":"Sand and Stone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/stpeter.ccreadbible.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/sandstone.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/stpeter.ccreadbible.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/sandstone-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"sandstone\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-914\" \/><\/a>TWO FRIENDS WERE WALKING THROUGH THE DESERT<br \/>\nDURING SOME POINT OF THE JOURNEY, THEY HAD AN ARGUMENT; AND ONE FRIEND SLAPPED THE OTHER ONE IN THE FACE<br \/>\nTHE ONE WHO GOT SLAPPED WAS HURT, BUT WITHOUT SAYING ANYTHING, WROTE IN THE SAND , TODAY MY BEST FRIEND SLAPPED ME IN THE FACE .<br \/>\nTHEY KEPT ON WALKING, UNTIL THEY FOUND AN OASIS, WHERE THEY DECIDED TO TAKE A BATH<br \/>\nTHE ONE WHO HAD BEEN SLAPPED GOT STUCK IN THE MIRE AND STARTED DROWNING, BUT THE FRIEND SAVED HIM.<br \/>\nAFTER HE RECOVERED FROM THE NEAR DROWNING,<br \/>\nHE WROTE ON A STONE: 'TODAY MY BEST FRIEND SAVED MY LIFE'<br \/>\nTHE FRIEND WHO HAD SLAPPED AND SAVED HIS BEST FRIEND ASKED HIM,<br \/>\n'AFTER I HURT YOU, YOU WROTE IN THE SAND AND NOW, YOU WRITE ON A STONE, WHY?'<br \/>\nTHE FRIEND REPLIED<br \/>\nWHEN SOMEONE HURTS US WE SHOULD WRITE IT DOWN IN SAND, WHERE WINDS OF FORGIVENESS CAN ERASE IT AWAY.<br \/>\nBUT, WHEN SOMEONE DOES SOMETHING GOOD FOR US,<br \/>\nWE MUST ENGRAVE IT IN STONE WHERE NO WIND CAN EVER ERASE IT'<br \/>\nLEARN TO WRITE YOUR HURTS IN THE SAND AND TO CARVE YOUR BENEFITS IN STONE.<br \/>\nTHEY SAY IT TAKES A MINUTE TO FIND A SPECIAL PERSON,<br \/>\nAN HOUR TO APPRECIATE THEM,<br \/>\nA DAY TO LOVE THEM, BUT THEN AN ENTIRE LIFE TO FORGET THEM.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TWO FRIENDS WERE WALKING THROUGH THE DESERT DURING SOME POINT OF THE JOURNEY, THEY HAD AN ARGUMENT; AND ONE FRIEND SLAPPED THE OTHER ONE IN THE FACE THE ONE WHO GOT SLAPPED WAS HURT, BUT WITHOUT SAYING ANYTHING, WROTE IN THE SAND , TODAY MY BEST FRIEND SLAPPED ME IN THE FACE . THEY KEPT <a href=\"https:\/\/stpeter.ccreadbible.org\/?p=910\" class=\"more-link\">...continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \"Sand and Stone\"<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-910","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-afternoon-tea","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry","9":"h-as-article"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stpeter.ccreadbible.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stpeter.ccreadbible.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stpeter.ccreadbible.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stpeter.ccreadbible.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stpeter.ccreadbible.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stpeter.ccreadbible.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/910\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stpeter.ccreadbible.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stpeter.ccreadbible.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stpeter.ccreadbible.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}